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The Virunga Mountains are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa along the northern border of Rwanda the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda. The mountain range is a branch of the Albertine Rift Mountains which border the western branch of the East African Rift. They are located between Lake Edward and Lake Kivu. The name Virunga is an English version of the Kinyarwanda word ibirunga which means volcanoes.The mountain range consists of eight major volcanoes.

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